As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington to seek more military aid to help fend off Russia’s invasion, a key bloc of Republicans stopped just short of preemptively saying no.
You don’t have to be an elected member of the House to serve as Speaker. Maybe Putin should be given the job.
Quislings. Putin appeasers. Saint Ronald is rolling in his grave.
In any war the most valuable and important spending is blood on the battlefield.
This was true in WW2 when “Lend Lease”, which was really just a give away, kept England and the USSR fighting whereby America spent money and the USSR spent 20,000,000 lives.
I do not even know the word to describe or explain the insensitivity to life by Republicans, but Republicans wanting “accountability” for aid to the Ukraine need only look at the towns, children and Ukrainian blood on the battlefield to know that whatever aid America provides for the Ukraine to hold off Russian and Putin it is more than paid for.
Ukraine is part of Guam, so what concern is it of ours?
“Sound and fury”
Tales told by idiots, signifying nothing.
Saint Ronnie did what he was told to do. If he were dealing with Ukraine today, he would be support whatever nonsense his handlers told him to do. I do not believe he had any principles intrinsically; he was just a sound bite actor delivering lines.
In the MM I wondered if Kevin denying Zelensky an opportunity to address Congress was to protect Zelensky from the radical righties in the House. Now I wonder if Kevin could escort Zelensky to each of the signatories’ offices so that they can come face to face with Zelensky and ask him their dumb questions in person?
Ukraine is not among the wealthy, so how is it they are entitled to our largess?
Its grain at least used to feed a lot of the world?
Ukraine supplies a lot of food to poorer countries. Do you want to add more countries beholden to Russia?
These people are very lost and far removed from the ideas that birthed our nation.
Yes, we are all very imperfect in it’s applications past and present, but these people are pretty much severed from them entirely.
Everyone needs to push back against the lack of humanity and positivity and vision that is whatever today’s gop has become.
When Exxon had their climate impact reports come out late 70s no action was taken when we could have done things that were so much less disturbing to our way of life.
12 years of Reagan Bush blew that. So now we, libruls et al get the blame.
I need a drink. Sadly it will be water and coffee.
These a**holes are traitors to the US & think they can only win by acting this way to keep their malicious uneducated fascist party together. We know this 100%. It’s clear they would “win” even if it meant nuclear war. They absolutely must be destroyed or we all will be.
Six Republican senators and 23 GOP House members sent a letter to the White House Thursday saying that, for now, they oppose a request for $24 billion in additional funding from Congress to support Kyiv.
I appreciate when Republicans are so open about being on Putin’s payroll. It makes it easier for the rest of us to know who is corrupt.
Edit:
His blockading of US military promotions making much more sense now.
I believe Dave was being snarky, sarcastic Brian?
“Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) signed the letter, and said on Wednesday that he would use Senate procedural rules to slow down any additional Ukraine spending bills, citing long-debunked ideas around the national debt to justify more aid.”
So Moscow Mitch isn’t the only Kentucky senator in Russia’s grasp. And it appears Putin has an even better hold on Paul.
Been that way for a while…
If I misread (which I really hope I did) then I apologize. I’ve been dealing with idiots and idiocy a lot recently in my day job, and my snark-o-meter™ may be out of calibration.
